With the release of its updated standalone Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 product, Microsoft claims to [finally] have a hypervisor to match that of market leader VMware. Moreover, by bundling newly added live ...

I'm putting together some specs for a new server and am finding it requires a lot of thought and review to get things "perfect" if there is such a goal... The budget ...

If you've been following my writings on ZDNet for the last several years, you've probably realized by now that I am something of a virtualization and server technology junkie. In my day job as a ...

This week, Microsoft announced that the free "standalone" Hyper-V Server 2019 is now available for download. Ben Armstrong, principal program manager lead on the core virtualization team at Microsoft, ...

Microsoft pricing for Server 2008 and the Hyper-V virtualization hypervisor was announced on Monday. Probably the two most interesting things about the pricing is that Server 2008 stays pretty close ...

Microsoft brings its bare-metal hypervisor platform, Hyper-V Server 2008, to market and makes it a freely downloadable virtualization product Last week, Microsoft announced that it had shipped its ...

Switch Embedded Teaming (SET) is a feature introduced in Windows Server 2016 as an alternative to NIC teaming. It allows up to eight identical physical network adapters to be combined into a Hyper-V ...

IT professionals who work with Hyper-V on a regular basis might feel lost in a VMware environment, but some key similarities between the two offerings can provide a welcome sense of familiarity. Even ...

Companies of all sizes are looking to virtualization as a seemingly game-changing scenario. Server consolidation, energy efficiency, increased capacity, and simpler management and deployment are all ...

With the Technical Preview (TP) 5 of Windows Server 2016 recently released, I thought I'd take the opportunity to cover all the new goodness coming in Hyper-V. TP 5 is apparently feature complete; ...

Hyper-V is now ranked No. 1 in Latin America for x86 virtualization, with 44.1 percent of the market share for the third quarter of 2013, according to an IDC study, the Microsoft Server and Cloud ...

European admins look forward to new capabilities in Windows Server 2012 and high-end features in the free version of Hyper-V 3.0, such as shared-nothing live migration. Hyper-V 3.0 will also include ...